Celebrity pastors are not a new phenomenon, nor is our human tendency to exalt our leaders to unsustainable heights.
What is new is the number of celebrity pastors and the speed at which they are being created and corrupted. Every generation has had a handful of well known pastors, but why are there now so many, and how do they achieve so much influence with so little accountability? What explains the creation of an entire celebrity-class within American evangelicalism?
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